OTS Solicitors

OTS Solicitors are energetic and driven. Rather like your typical entrepreneurial client, new start-up or international company wanting to gain a foothold in the UK by securing a sole representative visa.

Established in 2014, OTS Solicitors has a reputation for “punching above its weight”, delivering commercial and pragmatic legal advice with excellent client service that is focussed on delivering results. Within a few short years, OTS Solicitors has gained national and international recognition as leaders in business immigration and personal immigration law.

Led by managing partner, Oshin Shahiean and CEO, Teni Shahiean, and with a talented legal team that includes former immigration judge, Paul Gulbenkian, the lawyers at OTS Solicitors regularly appear in the national and foreign media. The immigration team has helped cover stories on Brexit, the new Start-up and Innovator Visas, changes to the Investor visa, and have helped highlight the plight of the Windrush generation and asylum seekers.

Whilst OTS Solicitors are known for their business immigration and personal immigration law work the firm has invested heavily in growing its family law offering and employment law and litigation teams. The growth in these areas comes about because of demand from both business and personal immigration clients for joined-up seamless legal advice from specialist solicitors.

The expansion of OTS Solicitors has not distracted the firm from its focus on client excellence and service.  The firm is highly recommended by clients, intermediaries and other solicitors and barristers because of OTS Solicitors emphasis on quality and excellence.

With a multi-national client base, OTS Solicitors has a strong international focus. Multiple languages are spoken within the practice. Senior lawyers make regular visits to overseas jurisdictions such as UAE, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Russia, Armenia, Middle East and North Africa and USA to advise businesses.

Areas of practice:

Business Immigration: OTS Solicitors have a strong national and international reputation for providing business immigration solutions.  The immigration team acts for entrepreneurs, high-net-worth individuals applying for Investor visas, academic institutions, multi-national organisations, and SMEs.

Co-founder and CEO, Teni Shahiean, has a niche practice in UK Sponsor Licence compliance and challenging downgrading, suspending and/or revocation decisions. In addition, the firm provides Sponsor Licence management services and bespoke immigration and employment law training to corporate clients ranging from SMEs to multi-nationals.  Managing Partner, Oshin Shahiean and senior consultant, Paul Gulbenkian lead the high-net-worth and investor visa applications, working closely with intermediaries to ensure applications are dealt with efficiently and effectively. The firm is known for its expertise in advising entrepreneurs and technology businesses and so have a real passion for securing the new Start-up and Innovator visas and providing follow up corporate advice.

Immigration: the personal immigration team has a vast amount of experience in securing student visas, spouse visas, visitor visas, family visas, indefinite leave to remain, immigration bail, British citizenship and advising on asylum and human rights claims and appeals, overstay, detention and removal.

OTS Solicitors have been at the forefront of advising Windrush victims, appearing on the BBC 2 programme “Who should get to stay in the UK ?”. The team has also assisted the national and international media by answering questions on the effect of Brexit on personal and business immigration law, appearing on the BBC news, the Victoria Derbyshire Show and being quoted by major national and international media outlets.

Landlord & Tenant Law: Our Solicitors are particularly experienced in acting on behalf of Landlords, Property Management Companies, Agents and Tenants. Our solicitors have built a reputation for providing the best representation in all types of landlord and tenant disputes including evictions, repair responsibilities, early termination, harassment, breach of contract, repossession, rent repayment orders and rent arrears.

Disputes that can arise as a result of tenancy are diverse in nature and often complicated. Our Landlord and Tenant Team focus on the intricacies of all legal aspects of the tenancy whether you are the landlord or the tenant.

Family Law: with its international client base of entrepreneurs and high net worth investor clients, the family law team focusses on servicing their family law needs. Advice covers cohabitation and prenuptial agreements, child abduction and permission to take a child overseas to live, international adoption and surrogacy arrangement cases and cross-border and high net worth divorce and financial settlements. The family law team offers unrivalled expertise in cases involving family and immigration law elements such as international divorce and inter-country adoption and children disputes.

Employment Law:  With a reputation for straight talking, no nonsense legal advice, employment law clients range from start-ups and SMEs to large national and multi-national corporations. Advice and representation covers: immigration and employment law (Sponsor Licence management and right to work and recruitment), disciplinary matters, TUPE, redundancy, employment tribunal claims, Equality Act 2010 and settlement agreements.

Human Rights: The human rights team are experts in Article 8 and Article 3 immigration appeals and judicial reviews. The firm has a robust understanding of Middle East, Asia and African asylum and human rights cases and has access to specific country legal expertise and human rights groups.

Civil Litigation: the commercial litigation department has extensive experience in all types of civil litigation disputes, including claims for breach of contract, professional negligence, director and shareholder disputes. If divorce and financial proceedings involve a family business, the family law team can draw on the experience and expertise of the civil litigation team in drawing up company paperwork or resolving satellite company litigation.

Commercial and company law: The team advises on all aspects of commercial and corporate law , including company start up, partnership and shareholder agreements, commercial contracts, terms and conditions and disputes. The firm specialises in assisting overseas entrepreneurs to set up their company structure once they secure Start-up or Innovator visas.

Number of UK partners: 2

Number of other UK fee-earners: 20

Breakdown of work %

Individual Immigration: 70%

Family Law: 20%

Employment: 5%

Litigation: 3%

All Other: 2%